The greatest WordPress.com site in all the land!

Menu

Post navigation

My country, ladies and gentlemen

Dec 17 Hungary’s government on Thursday called on ministries and other institutions to cancel subscriptions with Magyar Telekom after the Deutsche Telekom subsidiary cancelled a sponsorship agreement with a government-friendly pop singer.

Singer Akos Kovacs told private television Echo TV on Sunday that he thought it was not a job of a woman to make as much money as a man and that women had better “fulfil the female calling by belonging to someone, bearing a child for someone”.

Magyar Telekom said the remarks were incompatible with the company’s diversity principles and withdrew a sponsorship deal with Kovacs, who is known for his support of the ruling centre-right Fidesz party.

The controversy was discussed at a government meeting on Wednesday, government spokesman Zoltan Kovacs told MTI on Thursday.